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Happy New Year to all members of estuarine-sceince. Into its second month of existence, estuarine-science now has over 230 members, with this number increasing daily. As some of you know, I am by training a fish ecologist, but I am also greatly interested in cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish, squid, Nautilus) because of their ecological similarities to fish. No cephalopods exist in freshwaters, but I was wondering if anyone had any evidence of estuarine occurrence. I have heard of octopus being entrained at power station intakes in mid-estuary areas (salinity 8-25), but have not seen any myself. Are cephalopods limited by their osmoregulatory abilities to be only adventitious species in estuaries, or are there other more important factors perhaps involved as well? Best wishes Marin Greenwood, List Owner Forth Estuary Ecology Group Institute of Biological Sciences University of Stirling Scotland FK9 4LA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%